KEYNOTE— May  the  Korea  Movement  mean  as  much 
for  the  spiritual  uplift  of  the  Church  in  America  as  it 
means  for  the  financial  uplift  of  the  Church  in  Korea . 


KOREA 

TEN 

Outstanding  and  Compelling 

FACTS 


The  Korea 

Quarter -Centennial  Commission 


Bishop  Earl  Cranston,  President 
Hon.  Charles  Warren  Fairbanks  Bishop  M.  C.  Harris 
Vice-Presidents 

George  Heber  Jones,  Executive  Secretary 
Dillon  Bronson  F.  H.  Sheets 
Secretaries 

James  Monroe  Buckley 
R.  F.  Raymond 

C.  E.  Welch 
Frank  L.  Brown 
Charles  Gibson 
John  F.  Goucher 
George  Clarke  Peck 
J.  Sumner  Stone 
Allan  MacRossie 

D.  F.  Pierce 
Charles  Parkhurst 
Robert  E.  Jones 
J.  J.  Wallace 
C.  M.  Levister 
J.  H.  Potts 


A.  B.  Leonard 
Hanford  Crawford 
T.  D.  Collins 
Frank  A.  Horne 
G.  W.  F.  Swartzell 
George  P.  Eckman 
Albert  J.  Nast 
Charles  M.  Stuart 
Lynn  H.  Hough 
Freeman  D.  Bovard 
Levi  Gilbert 
Claudius  B.  Spencer 
L.  H.  Pierce 
Stephen  J.  Herben 
William  Downey 


KOREA— TEN  OUTSTANDING  TACTS. 


The  Korea  Quarter-Centennial  Commission  calls 
the  attention  of  the  Church  to  the  remarkable 
history  of  our  Mission  in  Korea  and  the  time- 
liness of  the  Movement  to  place  our  Mission  Sta- 
tions in  that  country  on  the  basis  of  immediate 
efficiency.  The  following  ten  outstanding  and 
compelling  facts  indicate  the  urgency. 

TACT  ONE.  Korea  is  to-day  one  of  the  very 
ripest  of  our  mission  fields.  A national  mass 
movement  into  the  Faith  is  under  way  and,  if 
taken  advantage  of,  promises  to  result  in  the 
speedy  evangelization  of  the  people.  The  total 
Christian  population  in  Korea  in  1910  was  ap- 
proximately two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand, 
being  an  average  of  more  than  one  convert  an 
hour  for  every  hour  of  the  day  and  night  since 
the  first  missionary  set  foot  on  Korean  soil 
twenty-five  years  ago. 

FACT  TWO.  Korea  has  passed  through  a re- 
markable revival  resulting  in  a wonderful  deep- 
ening of  the  spiritual  life  of  the  Church.  Fol- 
lowing this  revival  the  Christians  during  1910 
conducted  a great  evangelistic  campaign  which 
carried  the  gospel  message  to  a million  Koreans 
and  brought  thousands  of  converts  into  living 
relationship  with  our  Saviour. 

FACT  THREE.  During  the  month  of  October, 
1910,  a determined  effort  was  made  to  capture 
Seoul,  the  capital,  a city  of  200,000,  for  Christ. 
The  city  was  divided  into  fourteen  parishes  and 
a band  of  fifty  volunteer  workers  in  each  one  of 
these  parishes  visited  every  house,  once  a day 
for  six  days  in  succession,  talking  with  the  peo- 
ple and  inviting  them  to  come  to  Christ.  Every 


theater  and  public  hall  was  hired  for  the  entire 
month,  thus  securing  a monopoly  of  the  public 
meeting  facilities  of  the  city.  A column  a day 
in  each  one  of  the  six  daily  newspapers  was  se- 
cured and  filled  with  information  about  our  Lord 
and  His  Kingdom.  As  a result  of  this  work  dur- 
ing the  first  two  weeks  of  October  7,000  residents 
of  Seoul  gave  in  their  names  as  desirous  of  be- 
coming followers  of  our  Lord. 

FACT  FOUR  It  is  proposed  to  follow  this 
campaign  with  a thorough  canvass  of  the  prov- 
inces, strong  teams  of  workers  spending  two 
weeks  simultaneously  in  each  of  the  thirteen  pro- 
vincial capitals.  This  will  be  followed  bjf  the 
simultaneous  campaign  in  each  of  the  330  county 
seats,  through  which  bands  of  workers  will  spread 
into  all  the  remaining  towns  and  hamlets  of  the 
country,  thus  by  a concerted  effort  reaching 
every  Korean  home  in  the  peninsula. 

FACT  FIVE.  By  agreements  with  other  mis- 
sions Methodism  has  now  become  directly  respon- 
sible for  the  evangelization  of  territory  in  Korea 
containing  more  than  three  million  people,  a num- 
ber almost  equal  to  the  entire  membership  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  America.  In 
this  vast  parish  we  now  have,  including  physi- 
cians and  educators,  twenty  men  at  work,  being 
one  foreign  missionary  for  150,000  of  the  popu- 
lation, which  would  be  equivalent  to  locating  one 
Christian  leader  in  a city  the  size  of  Denver, 
Colorado. 

FACT  SIX.  Within  the  short  period  of 
twenty-five  years  our  Church  in  Korea  has  grown 
to  a total  of  over  sixty  thousand  members  and 
probationers.  Stations  where  foreign  mission- 
aries reside  have  been  opened  at  six  important 


centers.  An  Annual  Conference  has  been  organ- 
ized with  thirty-four  ministerial  members  and 
twenty-one  probationers  and  the  Conference  in- 
cludes seven  Districts  with  over  four  hundred 
organized  congregations  and  more  than  one  thou- 
sand preaching  places.  The  Quarter-Centennial 
year  was  signalized  by  the  first  appointment  to 
the  District  Superintendency  of  a Korean  minis- 
ter and  the  sending  of  a Korean  missionary,  sup- 
ported by  the  Korean  Churches,  to  work  among 
the  Koreans  in  China. 

FACT  SEVEN.  In  the  educational  work  main- 
tained by  our  Church  in  Korea  there  are  172 
schools  with  6,083  pupils  in  attendance.  There 
are  183  theological  students  receiving  systematic 
training  and  in  connection  with  the  work  of  the 
Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society  there  are 
schools  for  the  training  of  Bible  women  and 
nurses,  and  for  the  education  of  the  blind  and 
of  deaf-mutes. 

FACT  EIGHT.  During  the  past  year  30,000 
sick  and  afflicted  persons  have  been  cared  for  by 
our  physicians.  Since  the  opening  of  our  Mission 
over  five  hundred  thousand  patients  have  been 
treated  in  our  hospitals.  It  is  planned  to  erect 
new  hospitals  at  five  of  our  interior  mission  sta- 
tions. A sum  of  $50,000  will  erect  all  these  hos- 
pitals and  will  insure  Christian  medical  relief  to 
an  average  of  at  least  fifty  thousand  Koreans 
annually  for  the  next  thirty  years.  There  are 
men  in  Methodism  who  could  give  this  $50,000 
and  thus  be  instrumental  in  not  only  relieving 
annually  the  pain  and  suffering  of  a population 
equal  to  that  of  a large  city,  but  be  the  means 
of  bringing  multiplied  thousands  of  souls  out  of 
darkness  into  the  light  of  our  Lord. 


FACT  NINE.  In  order  to  meet  the  present 
emergency  and  provide  for  the  imperatively  nec- 
essary equipment,  the  Mission  calls  for  a rein- 
forcement of  twenty-three  new  men  and  for 
funds  to  erect  buildings  for  school,  medical,  evan- 
gelistic, and  residential  purposes.  Of  the  ripe- 
ness of  Korea  for  evangelization  and  the  time- 
liness of  movements  looking  to  the  placing  of  all 
Mission  Stations  there  on  the  basis  of  full  effi- 
ciency competent  observers  like  Dr.  John  R. 
Mott,  Hon.  Charles  Warren  Fairbanks,  Dr.  J. 
Wilbur  Chapman,  Hon.  William  J.  Bryan,  Mr. 
John  B.  Sleman,  founder  of  the  Laymen's  Mis- 
sionary Movement,  and  Dr.  J.  F.  Goucher,  with 
many  others,  have  borne  full  and  convincing  tes- 
timony. 

FACT  TEN.  By  formal  action  of  the  General 
Conference,  the  Board  of  Bishops,  the  General 
Committee,  and  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
the  Church  celebrates  in  1910-11  the  Quarter- 
Centennial  of  the  founding  of  the  Mission.  The 
Korea  Quarter-Centennial  Movement  therefore 
has  full  official  endorsement.  The  Korea  Com- 
mission, approved  by  the  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions, now  issues  a call  to  the  Churches  to  con- 
tribute the  sum  of  $300,000  additional  to  their 
regular  offering  for  Foreign  Missions,  for  the 
purpose  of  sending  an  adequate  number  of  mis- 
sionaries to  gather  in  the  harvest  thus  providen- 
tially before  us,  of  placing  our  school  and  hos- 
pital work  on  the  basis  of  efficiency  and  provid- 
ing houses  in  which  our  missionaries  may  live. 

It  is  thought  that  this  can  be  done  by  finding 
100  gifts  of  $1,000  each;  1,000  gifts  of  $100  each, 
and  2,000  gifts  of  $50  each,  from  individual 
donors  or  churches.  Larger  or  smaller  gifts  will 
be  most  gratefully  received,  but  it  is  desired  that 


the  canvass  shall  be  so  conducted  that  it  will 
not  divert  money  from  the  regular  collection  of 
the  Board. 

Send  all  contributions  to  Homer  Eaton,  Treas- 
urer, 150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  as  a special 
gift  for  the  Korea  Quarter-Centennial  Fund. 
Proper  vouchers  will  be  furnished  the  pastors  for 
all  amounts  thus  forwarded.  For  further  infor- 
mation address  the  secretaires. 

On  behalf  of  the  Korea  Commission, 

Earl  Cranston, 

President. 

M.  C.  Harris, 

Bishop  of  Korea. 

A.  B.  Leonard, 

Corresponding  Secretary  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions. 

George  Heber  Jones, 

150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York, 
Executive  Secretary. 

F.  H.  SnEETS, 

57  Washington  St.,  Chicago. 

Dillon  Bronson, 

25  Park  St.,  Brookline,  Mass. 
Secretaries. 


